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noun

proceeds

the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property

In a sentence

Six example sentences with proceeds, each labelled with its topic.

  • Every dollar of the concert proceeds went to the flooded school, and the band paid its own travel costs.

    Music

  • The estate's lawyers held the proceeds in escrow for nine months while two cousins argued over the will.

    Finance

  • She reinvested the proceeds from her first company into a second one, keeping only enough to cover a year of rent.

    Startups

  • The proceeds from the auction of her early sketches paid for a studio she had rented for thirty years.

    Art

  • The court ordered the proceeds of the house sale held in trust until the two heirs settled their claims.

    Law

  • The proceeds from the charity game rebuilt the playground courts, and the players came back to cut the ribbon.

    Basketball

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